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contraption girl, LGBTPoTESSCREAL, sidewalk/acc, e/bpd, tulpa rights are human rights, egregores dni
Joined October 2013
Welcome to earth. There's no magic here except what you bring with you.
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there's exactly one type of car it's actually funny to have this on.
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the first nonsense dewokeification change that's actually good.
X (fka Twitter) has quietly redesigned its 🔫 Water Pistol emoji to display as an actual firearm. This significantly diverges from the cross-platform conversion of this emoji from pistol to water gun from 2016 to 2018. 🔗
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Proposed software term: a ladybug -- a glitch that clearly isn't a feature, but is harmless and sparks joy so it is allowed to stay.
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what credit card has the highest possible vendor fees? not necessarily good rewards or anything, just high vendor fees. I need something to use at places that don't accept cash.
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guy who thinks killing 15 monkeys in order to solve serious neurological conditions for everyone forever is bad, and also thinks a college ethics class would reliabily cause you to believe this.
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some of y'alls relationships with your brains.
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git commit -m "Simplify and optimize grade calculation"
This code structure is called an arrow anti-pattern. How to fix this code?
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SWEs are treated extremely favorably by employers (good pay, flexible conditions, no standards of professionalism, no required formal education, no hazing rituals, etc) because unlike almost any other job, we have a practical next-best option to employment.
Why did SWEs decide they were too good for suits and why did anyone let them.
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it's difficult to describe exactly why, but watching people's reaction to this is blackpilling me on normies relationship to technology.
Ok so people already cracked the rabbit R1 and found out its android. People dumped the apk and i got it working (with root and a few mods) on a standard ass phone lmaoo
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> Google spins off Chrome.> paying Moz for search was an excuse to keep a second engine around for antitrust reasons, now that the worst has happened they stop.> new Chrome company can't make money on it's own.> both go bankrupt.> there are no more maintained web browsers.
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interviewer: how many states can a boolean be in?.C++ programmer: at least three.interviewer: can you name them?.C++ programmer: don't play games with me kid.
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girl who insists on walking her guy friends home at night because "men are 3.7X more likely to be homicide victims than women".
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how do doctors google things? do they wade through nonsense websites that just tell them to do what their doctor says over and over again on the civilian internet, or do they have a spacial doctor internet?.
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student loan cancellation isn't an innovation that solves a material problem. it's wealth transfer away from anyone not privileged enough to go to college, agentic enough to avoid college or rich/hard working enough to have paid for it.
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by default you "deserve" to be an inanimate lump. to live at all is to fight basic thermodynamics and win. you get to chose if you want to be part of the reason we win for another four billion years, or if you're on the side of thermodynamics.
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"can't be bothered with legal" is a perfectly reasonable stance for a kid working on an open source project, but using an LLM to generate a license displays a truly remarkable level of stupidity for an AI software founder. like, unfathomable.
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you hate tech bros because they're nerds, I hate tech bros because they're not nerds, we are not the same.
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For example minute hand on the analog clock I wrote in JavaScript spins a full rotation in the wrong direction at the start of each hour (you can probably guess why).
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ok fine, I'll say it. "the purpose of a system is what it does" is dumb. that's not what "purpose" means. "purpose" is what it's /meant/ to do, which is sometimes relevant, and useful to contrast against what it /actually/ does.
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do we all have a moral obligation to use interest free "buy now pay later" schemes wherever possible, to eat into their profits and make them less available to irresponsible consumers?.
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@coldhealing If in 2022 you have any sort of tech job and you can't do it from a pool you're probably doing something wrong.
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apparently the worst thing you can do as a startup is have your tech stack be observed to be compatible with the wider tech ecosystem.
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my hot take on "the ick" is. have you considered just ignoring it? I've felt insanely disgusted by people for seemingly innocuous things, and I usually just ignore it and then forget about it. even remembering the incident doesn't trigger the same feelings most of the time.
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this level of vigilance and competence is extraordinarily rare. almost feel sorry for the bad guys. no way they could have foreseen this.
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I like my women the way I like my programming languages (unsafe, difficult to understand, at least 20 years old).
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@coldhealing @ the people getting mad, have you ever worked on an engineering team without a PM? Because I have and ngl it's pretty fun but I can hardly claim we were particularly useful from a business standpoint.
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what types of insurance do rich people have? if you've got $100m+ in the bank, no mishap is going to knock out a significant portion of your wealth in one go. insurance is *supposed* to be negative-EV, so if rich people are buying insurance something funny is going on.
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"Sora is a data-driven physics engine". "The 3D objects are consistently animated". lol. lmao. did you seriously miss the red flag?. no, literally, track the red flag through the video.
If you think OpenAI Sora is a creative toy like DALLE, . think again. Sora is a data-driven physics engine. It is a simulation of many worlds, real or fantastical. The simulator learns intricate rendering, "intuitive" physics, long-horizon reasoning, and semantic grounding, all
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@ratlimit @shaggysurvives it's not a zero-sum game! there exists a total ordering which satisfies all constraints! everybody wins! you're welcome
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we can just build something ourselves, and compete with our potential employers. in almost every other industry employers compete for top talent, but only between each other because they provide the capital and structure required to provide value in that industry.
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What happens when 90% of the training data available for AI image generators is the output from other AI image generators, and nobody knows how to filter it out?.
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80s bug: it crashes if your name has more than 254 letters.90s bug: it crashes if it runs in the 00s.00s bug: it crashes if your name contains "ö".10s bug: it crashes when you press the "cloud sync" button.20s bug: the jabberwacky entity is back. we don't know what it wants.
an entity named "jabberwacky" keeps manifesting in separate instances of llama 405b base. no jailbreaks, no system prompts, just a simple "hi" is enough to summon the jabberwacky. seems to prefer high temps and middling or low top p. i have no more words. so I will use pictures
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I do not understand budgeting. "this thing I need is a good deal, but I'm out of budget so I can't buy it", "there's some left over budget, best spend it on useless bullshit" are the situations I imagine it creates. just make spending decisions based on expected utility ?.
people rawdogging your financial lives with no budget- how do you do it? what’s it like? do you know where your money goes?.
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omg the kids don't know about the desktop cube.
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but in software employers have to compete with employees for their time. building software is dramatically more efficient alone, which offsets a lot of the inherent advantages of capital. 1 unemployed engineer ≈ 1 team's worth of capacity.
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> be me.> need lat/lon for every airport IATA code.> download a list.> write a parser.> doesn't have all the airports.> download another list.> write a parser.> also doesn't have a the airports.> merge the two data sets.> they don't agree where airports are.
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in the modern workplace everyone is nonbinary. to an employer you are not a man or woman, but an agent of capitalism. and I think that's beautiful.
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I hate that "manipulation" in the context of relationships has such a malicious connotation. I want to be manipulated! not in a way that helps or harms me, just for fun. pick me up. rotate me around an arbitrary axis. change a parameter. replace a component. see what happens!.
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"the walk of shame" is one of those concepts from normie culture I just can't seem to wrap my head around. why are you, as an adult, ashamed to be moving from one location to another at a particular time? why does that imply sex? are normies really that predictable?.
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someone needs to invent a drug that turns you into a good housewife. you would think it either adderall or estrogen would do the trick, but both of those just turn you into a software engineer.
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say what you will about linux users, we'll never throw a fit because you allow us to make our desktop ugly if we want.
okay, jokes aside. this is bad. this is so bad. this is the android level of bad. the capital B type of bad. it’s like good, but really, really bad.
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gf who's high-agency, lucky, and kinda a bad person 😳.
i learned something about agency when, on my second date with my now-girlfriend, i mentioned feeling cold and she about-faced into the nearest hotel, said she left a scarf in a room last week, and handed me the nicest one out of the hotel’s lost & found drawer.
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one of the lesser talked about results of disabling likes is that you can no longer neg someone by liking the other person's replies in a debate thread.
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how does one increase the frequency with which one finds oneself in Unexpected Situations with Unlikely People?.
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whenever I get a crush on someone I have to quickly start pursuing other people as well, because if one person gets more than half of my attention it makes me vulnerable to a 51% attack.
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wanting to be called a good girl is pornbrained. admiring a beautiful woman is perverted. kissing the person you love is basically gooning. society is going to hell, and it's your fault you allo degenerate scum.
women are truly the most pornbrained creatures alive.
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@ReallyRadley @Duderichy do you believe taking the subway in NYC gives you a higher chance of dying than taking an uber?.
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this is an incredibly important branch of the tech tree. we need to improve speed, durability and price until we can lay roads of the stuff coast to coast and replace all forms of transit slower than HSR.
One step closer to the holodeck!. Introducing: Holotile. AR/VR walking is now possible!
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if someones telling you an idea and it's philosophers have written about it before and you've read and understood them, you should have something more interesting to say in response than "someone already wrote about this".
I talked to this tech guy at a wedding and he was like "I've been thinking about how there's no way to know if your experiences of the world are the same as other peoples'. I might write about it." He was shocked when I explained philosophers have talked about this for millennia.
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the absolute brilliance of making "you are not immune to propaganda" an inescapable mantra is it perfectly targets the people for whom it's true.
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@nostalgebraist I'm incrementing the letter one by one in the same GPT4 chat and. the absolute level of passive aggressiveness
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I hate the little things that are persistently taught slightly wrong because the assumption is nobody really cares. for example: escape velocity. "you need to be going X km/s to leave earth's orbit" THAT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE. if you go 1 km/h you will *eventually* leave.
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not to start boring discourse but I'm genuinely curious: how do you guys date someone and still be attracted to them? doesn't someone explicitly admitting they like you defuse the tension necessary for attraction? am I just avoidant or otherwise fucked up?.
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I hope the trans guy who's getting mercilessly dogpiled for daring to hit on women is at least getting gender euphoria about it.
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people trust their browser with their livelihoods and life's savings. in the uncommon but expected at scale case people trust it with their lives. arc has $50m in funding and values a catastrophic security failure at $2k. this company needs to die.
gaining access to anyones browser without them even visiting a website (CVE-2024-45489).
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"are you a transphobic incel? is this preventing you from fucking blue-haired leftists? this problem can be solved with Technology" is an elevator pitch I wasn't expecting today, but in retrospect makes a lot of sense.
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Loosing my mind at people calling the black market drug dealer unprofessional because she likes anime girls.
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actually if you have a crush on someone inconvenient just stop thinking about them. if you interact with them regularly, just think for a moment "I find them pleasant and am attracted to them" and then think about other things. don't fantasize, don't introspect, don't obsess.
somone on the vibecamp forum asked:. "I have a raging crush on my boss who is married and I’m EXHAUSTED by this and want it to end. How to get over a crush?". I enjoyed giving an answer and here it is:
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AAAAAAAAAAAA. HOUSING IS EXPENSIVE BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT WANTS IT TO BE EXPENSIVE. THE GOVERNMENT WANTS IT TO BE EXPENSIVE BECAUSE "reducing property value", FOR SOME REASON, IS NOT HOW YOU GET REELECTED. IT'S NOT THAT HARD TO UNDERSTAND.
BREAKING: A bill has been introduced in the House and Senate that would prevent hedge funds from owning single-family houses in the United States.
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I think I'm a female apologist on this one.
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If you don't give major life projects (moving, dating, getting a job, etc) cutesy code names like the military you absolutely should.
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concept: nonprofit that you pay the full amount of to up front whenever you make a purchase, it handles the payments for you and collects interest in the interim. do this at scale and it both generates a lot of money for charity and wrecks the predatory lending business model.
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the optimal relationship is monogamous with both people cheating, where they both know each other are cheating and are fine with it, but neither knows the other knows they are cheating (or else it would just be poly, which is annoying).
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@rachelmillman "Might seduce your dad type" Isn't a description of "real" (within the context of the song) events: past, present, future or hypothetical. It's an invocation of a cultural stereotype. It's a rhetorical device.
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Banning Lena in the current legislative and cultural environment sends a clear message. It shows the length some are willing to go to expunge women (and especially sex workers) from the history of technology.
Just FYI, computer vision papers submitted to IEEE that include this image of Ms. Forsén will no longer be considered for publication
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it's really quite funny how incels think physical attractiveness is important for men. I'm not even into men most of the time but it's soooo obvious which ones are attractive and which ones aren't, and has nothing to do with looks.
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IF I EVER STAND TRIAL FOR A SERIOUS CRIME AND AM ACQUITTED DESPITE STRONG EVIDENCE, I HEREBY COMMIT TO TRANSFERRING A SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF MY AVAILABLE ASSETS TO ANY JUROR WHO LATER CONTACTS ME.
at the very least you should be able to acausally bribe the jury. if I'm a juror and the defendant likely has control of hundreds of millions in cryoto, I'm nullifying and sneaking them a monero address after. idk if they're a child rapist patent troll, EV is too high not to.
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@<roommate> help! I'm locked in the elevator.|.it's making an awful grinding noise, please help.|.the ceiling is cracked, I'm gonna die. > roommate blissfully unaware, because they have "locked in", "grinding" and "cracked" all muted.
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Some people say unicode is too confusing and prone to abuse, but I say diacritics, combining marks and zero-width joiners build character.
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all the hot girls are the big black men and the guy is the young white girl is this anything?.
I’m sure everyone who stats-trolled Aella over the years will be happy to see that she now seems to have a much better grasp of how science and the growth of knowledge work than the average redpill guy. The hypothetico-deductive method and it’s consequences
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so. the fact that semaglutide seemingly operates entirely on desires and impulse control is completely obliterating the "obesity is caused by something in the water" thing, right?.
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obviously CV + robotics /can/ get you very low latency and accurate targeting. that's not what this is about. this is claiming to be video evidence something is working, and to anyone who knows anything it's clearly not evidence of that.
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so apparently there just is an antiviral that treats the common cold, the problem is the FDA rejected it in 2002 for bullshit reasons and now the going rate on sketchy chemical supplier sites is ~$20k/treatment.
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a few years back after the dozenth time helping my mom move pictures around I decided to draw a simple diagram to explain how it worked and.
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@warty_dog because the app is uninteresting (basically same functionality as gpt4). the r1 is, to me, mostly interesting as a hardware product.
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